Well the first thing you can do is talk to the TA and aks her why she said that ...
Second thing would be to go talk to a professor or course head, or a department head about what you feel is happening i mean if you really did give a quality presentation and did do a bunch of work you can find someone to listen to you ...

Why are you complaining? You are lucky that she is not telling you to castrate yourself with a rusty spork.

Life ain't fair, deal with it. You should be glad that she even acknowledges that you exist.

You should be glad. Because of people like your TA, we have different physical fitness criteria for male and female firefighters, or the criteria has been lowered so that both male and female firefighters can pass them. Nevermind that a male firefighter can probably lift a 150lb person and carry them downstairs, while a female firefighter can only drag a 150lb person. This way, its fair.

Most of my teachers are not sexist or they favor girls more than others, but some have stopped being so blatantly sexist after some of the girls complained. So, one way to stop it is to ask the girls to help you ask the person to stop being sexist.
Then again, my school district has a policy against sexual discrimation of any sort, but even if there isnt one let the teacher know, let the administrators know. Tell your parents and ask them to complain. c'est la vie, but if you honestly had no reason to get a lower grade on anything, other than the fact that the person thinks you deserved a grade based on something you cannot change, you have a right to complain.

Why are you complaining? You are lucky that she is not telling you to castrate yourself with a rusty spork.

Life ain't fair, deal with it. You should be glad that she even acknowledges that you exist.

You should be glad. Because of people like your TA, we have different physical fitness criteria for male and female firefighters, or the criteria has been lowered so that both male and female firefighters can pass them. Nevermind that a male firefighter can probably lift a 150lb person and carry them downstairs, while a female firefighter can only drag a 150lb person. This way, its fair.

I would see it as a good thing, in a retarded way.
She probably sees great potential in you and reckons that you could do really well, thus looking at the fine details, whereas she's given up hope on all the other boneheads.

That happened to me once. I had practise questions to do, I did them and did not get full marks for any of them. So I studied harder and when exam time came around, I topped the grade.

It depends on how you want to look at it I suppose, don't let her get to ya in a negative sorta way.

I had a really sexist teacher and she ended up with class of like 15 guys and 2 girls. She really hated all of us guys and always accused us of cheating and such, but since she couldn't prove anything we all get A's

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May I gripe about a teacher I did some volunteer work for? While I was installing software on her computer, I heard plenty of the goings-on in her class. She often pit the boys against the girls in classroom activities and said "Hooray! We won!" if the girls' side won. She made other comments about girls being superior to boys, and I could tell that it made the kids of both sexes uncomfortable.

Why are you complaining? You are lucky that she is not telling you to castrate yourself with a rusty spork

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I find this sentence amusing in so many different ways...life is surreal

Anyway, Oldschool, I would recommend what kwyjibo advocated earlier...if you feel you did a quality of work that deserved better, ask quwstions all through the chain of command of the department...I am not sure I would recommend screaming prejudice, just your grade and your work on their merits...I must ask how low your grade was, as if it was still decent, in might not be a battle to fight this time..sometimes life just treats us unfairly, you just do what you can...good luck

"You are lucky that she is not telling you to castrate yourself with a rusty spork."

"You should be glad that she even acknowledges that you exist."

see... when you say things like that people tend to take it in a bad way. it makes you look like a person with no regard for your fellow human or human rights for that matter.

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Ah... you didn't get through to the sarcastic undertone of the message itself. Thats why.

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Why are you complaining? You are lucky that she is not telling you to castrate yourself with a rusty spork.

Life ain't fair, deal with it. You should be glad that she even acknowledges that you exist.

You should be glad. Because of people like your TA, we have different physical fitness criteria for male and female firefighters, or the criteria has been lowered so that both male and female firefighters can pass them. Nevermind that a male firefighter can probably lift a 150lb person and carry them downstairs, while a female firefighter can only drag a 150lb person. This way, its fair.

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Lets see. Castration with a rusty spork, acknowledgement of existence, dragging 150lb person... I guess if you were reading it quick, you would miss the sarcastic undertone of the whole post. And I even included a smiley too.

however seeing as sarcasm on the web doesn't seem to work all that well, i propose that a backwards italic style be implemented for all sarcastic phrases....but then people will stop using the style in order to be reverse sarcastic and it will all be messed up...

also thanks for all the replies...i'm going to wait for my mark then take it up with the department. Not only do i not deserve a lower mark than anyone else, the TA has no grounds on which to base a lower mark, as she doesn't know who did what in the group project so all marks should be equal.

i got teacher problem too . it all started one morring i was in the hall way and my english teacher walks by and she says"hi paul" there was a lot of other people too but she just said hi to me.oh ya she winked at me too . well any ways thats not the only time too. she wink at me a few times so far. one in class i said some thing i forgot what i said tho. but she said this "ooooooohhhhhh say that AgAIN i LIKE the WAY YOU SAy it". she had a big smile on her face two. i was like ookkkk i just smile at her and sat down. just a few days ago i try some thing cause my friend told me to flurt with to see if she would flurt back. its was at lunch she walk by and one of my friends(she doesn't know whats going on and i like her too) was sitting on the other side. so i looked right at the teacher and she looked back and came close to my face and walked by and she giggled. and my friend was like what thee it was the weirdest face i saw form her. and i knew her for like 2 years. it was funny. well anyway i want to know it the teacher like me? do you think so
and i want to know it you think she want to have s*x with me?

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Teachers do sometimes get crushes on students (although the reverse is much more common). It's best for all concerned if it is avoided. However, once the student graduates from the school, then it's not such a problem. Two male teachers at my high school married former students of theirs.

Teachers do sometimes get crushes on students (although the reverse is much more common). It's best for all concerned if it is avoided. However, once the student graduates from the school, then it's not such a problem. Two male teachers at my high school married former students of theirs.

I hope that you teacher was just kidding. If it was a group project, then everyone in the group should get the same grade.

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I disagree. Output (grade) should be a function of input (effort/quality of effort), and input can certainly be variable.

What my dad does, and he's a professor, is decide a group component and then allow group members to evaluate each other for the individual component. He then combines the two scores to get an overall score. That seems rather fair. Of course, he hears any concerns people might have about being sleighted in grading by their classmates.

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